Twitter outage: Don’t know what you got until it’s gone

Twitter appears to be gradually coming back online after an outage this morning that lasted at least a half-hour for many users. Maybe this is their way of reminding us how central the service has become to the way many of us communicate online.

Did anyone out there retreat to Facebook or take another look at Google+?

Ironically, of course, the service wasn’t able to keep users updated on Twitter itself, but the company did post an update on its status page: “Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.”